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and irregularly shaped, rimose. St. 5-13 cm. x 3-15 mm., pale white, 

 equal, or attenuated upwards, apex white pruinose. Gills pallid, then 

 flesh colour, emarginato-free, 6-12 mm. broad, at length distant, 

 sometimes undulato-flexuose. Flesh white. Spores pink, angular, 

 subglobose, 8-10 x 7-9 jii, 1-3-guttulate. Smell strong, alkaline, or 

 none. Woods, heaths, and lawns. Aug. Dec. Common, (v.v.) 



753. E. speculum Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 95, fig. 2. Speculum, a looking glass. 

 P. 2-5 cm., watery, or straw white, silvery when dry, submembra- 



naceous, convex, soon flattened and depressed, obtusely, and obso- 

 letely umbonate ; margin thin, bent inwards, flexuose, pellucid-striate. 

 St. 5-8 cm. x 4-8 mm., yellowish, round, often compressed, shining, 

 very fragile. Gills white, then flesh colour, slightly adnexed, broadly 

 emarginate, 6-8 mm. broad, ventricose, the shorter ones narrower, 

 edge becoming fuscous. Flesh brownish. Spores pink, angular, oblong, 

 12-14 x 7-8 /A, 1-2-guttulate. Woods, and pastures. Sept. Oct. 

 Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



754. E. tortipes Massee. Tortus, twisted; pes, foot. 

 P. 6-7 cm., dark brown, and shining as if oiled when moist, then 



cinnamon and silky shining when dry, convex and broadly umbonate, 

 then expanded and depressed round the umbo; margin arched, 

 flexuose, often splitting. St. 5-6 x -5 cm., whitish, tinged with cinna- 

 mon, flexuose, or angularly bent, silky-fibrillose. Gills pale dingy pink, 

 broadly adnate with a minute sinus, then free, 8-10 mm. broad 

 behind, tapering towards the margin, crowded. Flesh dark when 

 moist, paler when dry. Spores pink, elliptical, 5 x 3[j,. Amongst grass. 



Spores ochraceous, or ferruginous. 



Hebeloma Fr. 



(17/377, youth; \a>pa, a fringe.) 



Pileus fleshy, regular, margin incurved. Stem central, fibrous, or 

 fleshy. Gills sinuate, sinuato-adnate, or adnexed. Spores ochraceous, 

 ferruginous, or fuscous, elliptical, pip-shaped, pruniform, almond- 

 shaped, elliptic oblong, or fusiform, smooth, continuous. Cystidia 

 present, or absent. Growing on the ground, solitary, caespitose, or 

 subcaespitose. 



I. Furnished with a cortina from the manifest veil, by which 

 the p. is often superficially silky round the margin. 



755. H. mussivum Fr. (= Cortinarius percomis Fr. sec. Quel.) Fr. 



Icon. t. Ill, fig. 1. Musso, I mutter. 



P. 5-10 cm., yellow, sometimes darker, and brownish at the disc, 



fleshy, convex, then plane, unequal, very obtuse, viscid, smooth at 



